predicts that the portability reform will increase internal plan switching. However, under plausible assumptions, it will not … increase external insurer switching. Moreover, the portability reform will enable unhealthier enrollees to reoptimize their …

76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … market search model. Absent the reform, unemployment rates would be 50% higher today …

moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively …

study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …

the aggregate level, thus precluding any assessment of the overall impact of such measures. The reform of 1998 recognized …

This paper provides a quantitative evaluation of the macroeconomic, distributional, and fiscal effects of three reform … deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany.Policy reforms i) and ii …

We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment compensation … system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre-reform … the duration of unemployment. Our simulation results show that the recent labour market reform is unlikely to have a major …

model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …